SPEEDY69

I'm surprised Birmingham have preferred Lampart over Zach Cook, we'll see what happens.

Madsen definitely not the answer, Michelsen would be ok but I think he's busy enough.

Great news for Birmingham and those going to Foxhall, unfortunately I'll be 'avving it' at the O2 seeing Liam Gallagher

It was a good job you've signed Sedgmen the gater, otherwise it could have been worse for you

Rew was definitely the difference last night, great meeting for him.

I think that's right. One is the minimum but don't think anything prevents a team using two Rising Stars if they want to.

Nope, can't agree with that at all. Wide variety of shapes - wider/narrower and the material is different. Requires different skills/technique. Continental riders have pretty much always struggled over here until experienced and vice versa.

Yes. As I've said before, British speedway is a tough league to ride in, totally different tracks.

No thanks, struggles to pass water.

There was some passing after bend two but it was limited. Where Nicholls was successful was getting in front out of bend two - he's never been the best gater but used the outside dirt (which many were afraid of) to get ahead - including when there was only the smallest of gaps due to Cook squeezing him up to the fence. Lawson was good for Leicester and I also thought Becker did ok (although he also stuffed Cook in one heat) and Douglas was making the effort but couldn't get to grips with the deeper outside line on bends 1&2, hence his fall. Fricke looked quick at times but never really threatened. I'm not sure Rew will see much improvement, seems to overlock a lot, a bit like Simon Stead used to but I hope he proves me wrong.

I get that he was quick but to be over a second quicker than both of his other wins which were either side of this one calls me to question it. What happened to transponders?

Are the race times still done by someone with a stopwatch? Seems an odd stage of the meeting to set that kind of time and way ahead of all the other races.

They're going to start heat 1 in 2 minutes! (3 minutes early)

Me too.

I use a Chromecast device into the TV to watch it from my phone, that's just £15-£20 one-off (I don't have an internet TV or fire-stick).

Kerr for Janowski surely, he's hopeless.

Awful from Lawson, wonder what the trouble was?

I don't think that brings quite the same pressure that being on Eurosport does but in any case, they took the decision and I think it was wrong given how everything was at 7.45pm but can't do anything about that now.

I don't think they needed to move it. If this was on TV it would have run. Track would've been great, everywhere is drying fast and I'm only 1 mile from foxhall - that's the gamble with a forecast.

Speedway meetings never used to be cancelled with such small amounts of rain - the meeting against Lynn last week being a case in point. This is hurting not only the hosting tracks but also the sport in general and the riders themselves, because venues will continue to disappear. Some people might say the bikes these days can't be ridden but if that's the case then it's not the tracks at fault but the bikes and it's really disappointing that it's got to this state. I used to enjoy meetings on wet tracks as results were a little more unpredictable. Rant over.

What's Imp?

He was really lucky Huckenbeck didn't come off when he shoved him in the fence. No way Doyle was to blame for semi crash, holder squeezed them both, all four was the right call.

Agree with that but it never really rained that much at all, until after there was a delay for 15 minutes. What it did highlight really clearly to me was the difference in ability of riders to cope with a wet track where the bald bits go like ice and the deeper bits can be much better but occasionally really grippy. Standouts as not coping well were Klindt, Jenkins, Thompson & Basso. Those who coped really well and rode smoothly were Iversen, Doyle, Nicholls, Ellis and MPT. Could have easily got the remaining heats in if they were quick, in my view. I remember seeing Andy Smith in a world championship round at King's Lynn many years ago show all the others how it should be done when it was very wet, has was superb that day.

Not possible at Ipswich, their licence states the time of the first race, in this case 2.30 and it cannot be brought forwards. It did start on time.

He's been largely very poor in the premiership this season so far - I wonder if being captain has had an impact.